This document discusses how learners need to prepare for future jobs and the changing skills landscape. It notes that while some job titles may remain the same, the nature of work will change and new skills will be required. These include communication, creative thinking, problem solving, agility, and digital skills. The document highlights emerging jobs like creating robot personalities and careers in esports. It emphasizes that just because millennials are prolific technology users does not mean they have deep skills, and explicit teaching is needed to develop skills like entrepreneurship that will help thrive in new environments.

1. Preparing Learners for
Future Jobs
DR JAMES BIRT

2. Dr. James Birt
bond.edu.au/profile/dr-james-birt
Multi-dimensional defines my 20 year
industry and academic career, but
gaming is my 34 year passion

3. THE FUTURE OF JOBS
CHECK YOUR

4. Affinity
What you love
LackPassion
Opportunity
What is wanted
Ability
What you’re good
at
CHOOSING A JOB: PASSION OR PRAGMATISM?
Sweet Spot

5. MY FIRST JOB
WITH GAMES
(1999-2000)
Farming Lower Guk in
Vanilla EverQuest in search
of the Shining Metallic
Robes, Short Sword of
Ykesha and the Flowing
Black Silk Sash and selling
on eBay
Affinity
What you love:
Playing
EverQuest
Ability
What you’re
good at:
Farming
Opportunity
What is
wanted: Virtual
Loot

6. MY CURRENT JOB
WITH GAMES
(2010 - Today)
Affinity
What you love:
Games and
Education
Ability
What you’re
good at:
Communicating
Opportunity
What is wanted:
Communicators
that understand
Tech and
Games
Associate Professor and
discipline lead for Interactive
Media and Design where I
coordinate the Mixed Reality
Research Lab and
Communicate on Technology
and Games

7. YOUR FUTURE JOB COULD
INVOLVE CREATING
PERSONALITIES FOR
ROBOTS
Jobs Aussies can expect to emerge in the
future
Melanie Burgess News Corp May 11, 2018

8. BUT IS THIS JUST A TECHNOLOGY GIMMICK?
youtu.be/cUR-eYDAz9w

9. GOOGLE DUPLEX DEMO: Google I/O (May 9, 2018)
youtu.be/bd1mEm2Fy08?t=1m10s youtu.be/bd1mEm2Fy08?t=3m
NEW roles are created daily as a result of changing technologies and
customer expectations. Workers hoping to remain employable must look
ahead and prepare for what is coming.

10. WHAT ABOUT A JOB IN ESPORTS?
The Project – Game on – rise of eSports

11. “Most of the job titles will be the same as today … we will still have carpenters, nurses, road repairers, even teachers ... but the
nature of what they do and the skills they need will change … just as they have over the past 20 years”
Ron Johnston Executive Director, Australian Centre for Innovation, University of Sydney; The Conversation (Aug 2, 2016)

12. AREN’T ALL
MILLENNIALS
DIGITAL NATIVES?
• “[Millennials] are prolific users of [digital
technology] … do not assume that they are
[proficient users] … the increased use of
technology is primarily for [social media and
communications] … use doesn't mean learning
deeper skills … that requires explicit teaching”
• Australian Curriculum Assessment and Reporting
Authority CEO; ABC News (Nov 17, 2015)
PROLIFIC USERS OF DIGITAL
TECHNOLOGY

13. WHAT ARE THE SKILLS
AND STRATERGIES
REQUIRED TO THRIVE
IN THE NEW
LANDSCAPE?

14. Gartner 2018 Emerging Technology Hype Cycle

16. “Very clear, strong trend between the creative content of a job and its probability of
computerisation and replacement by robots” - Oxford Professor Michael Osbourne
2018 Future of Jobs Report – Core Work Skills

18. T H E C H A N G E I N D E M A N D F O R C O R E W O R K - R E L AT E D S K I L L S
Its not about any one
technology or learning a tool it’s
about:
communication, creative
thinking, problem solving, agility,
digital skills and
entrepreneurship

19. Changing Face of Classrooms

20. EDUCAUSE Horizon Report: 2018 Higher Education Edition
Samantha Adams Becker, Malcolm Brown, Eden Dahlstrom, Annie Davis, Kristi DePaul, Veronica Diaz,
and Jeffrey Pomerantz. NMC Horizon Report: 2018 Higher Education Edition. Louisville, CO:
EDUCAUSE, 2018.

21. NMC/CoSN Horizon Report: 2017 K-12 Edition
Freeman, A., Adams Becker, S., Cummins, M., Davis, A., and Hall Giesinger, C. (2017). NMC/CoSN
Horizon Report: 2017 K–12 Edition. Austin, Texas: The New Media Consortium.

22. Mixed Reality – Intersection of Virtual & Physical Realities
Milgram, P., & Kishino, F. (1994). A taxonomy of mixed reality visual displays. IEICE Transactions on
Information and Systems, 77(12), 1321-1329.

23. Mixed Reality Relevance for Teaching & Learning

24. Mixed Reality Research Lab
www.mixedrealityresearch.com

25. Research Led Teaching Approach

26. Education is about mentoring
inspiring young minds full of
inquisitive thought, entrepreneurship,
a love of creativity, design and
technology, and helping them set
goals and channel their creative
energies to solve real world
problems.